books
Listened to Pat Barker’s book Border Crossing, 2002, and thought it was perceptive. Someone wrote that they thought it was her best non-Ghost-Road book and I agree. I haven’t thought her books, other than that great triology, have been so … Continue reading →
books
Listened to Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, 2010. The narrator was a bit grating and the story too long and the characters almost completely unlikable but he can write a good book. And timely, our planet heading into an overpopulated, polluted, navel-staring … Continue reading →
scarf I want to make
Lucy Neatby pattern http://www.lucyneatby.com/ and my practice attempts so far.
Continue reading →Books – two mysteries, two novels
Murderous Proession by Ariana Franklin, 2010. It’s good but I am just not as interested in it as her first books. Seems to be how several series are affecting me these days. There are just too many other books I’d … Continue reading →
Books
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, 2009. Good, but hard to hear about the medical stuff. Believable characters. Didn’t like the ending, needlessly melodramatic, but the book is worth reading. The Past is a Foreign Country by Gianrico Carofiglio, 2010. … Continue reading →
summer books
Tana French, Faithful Place, July 2010. First book read on an iPad. It’s good but I think I liked her other two books better. Still, a good mystery, but I get tired of reading about drunks and the fallouts from … Continue reading →
summer knitting
fours things on the go: green cardigan green alpaca mitt blue sock, favorite Wendy pattern Blue EZ Sweater
Continue reading →essays
Finished a very good book of essays by Zadie Smith, called Changing My Mind, 2009. A real mixed bag of things, literary essays, movie reviews, going to the Oscars…Good book. And finished Solar by Ian McEwan and really liked it. … Continue reading →
good book
have yet to get the camera out to photo the latest knitting…but just finished listening to Solar by Ian McEwan and thought it was a great book. Funny, in a very cutting and smart way. And the main character is … Continue reading →